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6 thoughts on “Does "Transformers 3" lift scenes from "The Island"?”
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Wow.
A rather rhetorical question, I think :p
Scenes like this cost thousands of dollars to shoot, so I think it's tempting to insert similar footage.
I do prefer the way Tarantino does it. He rips off the entire sequence, but he shoots it himself. (see 'everything is a remix, kill bill'.
Y'know, it must be tough to be Bay (and I suppose even tougher to be Ehren Kruger, his bitch scribe…) Every time out of the gate, you have to figure out a new way to bend, bash, and break shit. I mean, redundancy has got to be an issue. Shoot the Chevy splitting in half wide, then close up of the chassis buckling, then swirling overhead angle on a ball of flame erupting from the tail end, then yadda yadda yadda, ad infinitum (or ad nauseum, if that's your pleasure).
But folks seem to keep on plunking down their bags of silver to watch this crap (er, my bag of silver was handed over last evening, in fact) so he must soldier on.
And for the record, I didn't despise this entry at all… in fact, I had a rather good time with it. As long as you go in knowing that you are watching nothing more than a 2 1/2 hour (two and a half f-in' HOURS LONG?!?!?) cartoon, you'll leave MOSTLY unscathed.
(I had an ear infection from swimming too deep in the lake last week so the carnage "turned up to 11" was blessedly muffled.)
You know a movie's bad when he rips off HIMSELF.
It probably saved money and worked for the shot. I don't see a problem.
Don't really care.
What I find interesting — is that the metal plate splitting the car from THE ISLAND is much more tense than robots flying everywhere.
The irony is they are literally using the same shots — and it's hard to tell because they have so many robots flying all over the place.
I doubt this was done because Michael Bay couldn't afford to shoot this scene.
It was more likely done to try and recoup some loss from THE ISLAND by selling the footage at a premium rate to TRANSFORMERS 3.